The Best App That Limits Social Media Time on iPhones

In 2015, it was reported that teens now spend up to nine hours a day in front of their smartphones, tablets, and computers. It’s estimated that 30% of these nine hours—or three hours per day—are spent using social media. To put this in perspective, if teens continue to use social media at this rate, they will spend over five years of their lives on Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, and other popular networks.

Based on these statistics, it’s easy to see why parents may be looking for apps that limit social media time on iPhones. Parents are in luck, because there are many apps that allow parents to step in and put an end to their child’s social media addiction. Here’s a look at some of the best choices:

TeenSafe Control

TeenSafe Control is an app that gives parents the power to limit or prevent their children’s access to social media. Using TeenSafe Control, parents can block certain social media apps that they do not want their child to use. For example, if you do not want your child to use SnapChat, you can simply block it with TeenSafe Control so your child does not have access to it.

Some parents don’t mind their children using social media as long as it doesn’t get in the way of other activities, such as family time or homework. If this sounds familiar, the pause feature on TeenSafe Control can help you limit the amount of time your child spends on her device. Adjust the settings on the TeenSafe Control app so your child’s phone completely pauses during dinner time or the hours after school where she should be working on homework. The only thing she will be able to access when her device is paused is the phone so she can continue to make and receive emergency calls. This prevents your kids from letting social media interfere with their other responsibilities.

Moment Family

Moment Family is an iOS app that tracks the amount of time each member in your family is spending on his or her device. This allows you to supervise the time your kids are spending on their devices. If you feel that your kids are wasting a lot of time on their devices, you can use this app to set screen time limits for each of your children. If one of your children exceeds the time limit you have set, a series of notifications will flood her screen, forcing her to put the phone down.

If you want everyone in your family to put their phones down, activate the “family dinner time” feature. When this feature is activated, anyone who picks up their phone to use it will be greeted with a very unpleasant sound. The sound does not stop until the person puts the phone back down.

OurPact

Another one of the many apps that limit social media time on iPhones is OurPact. This is a parental control app that parents can use to block their kids’ access to certain apps or set daily screen time limits. Using this app, parents can preset times that their kids are allowed to use social media apps. For example, let’s say your kids are having trouble concentrating in school because they’re on social media in the middle of class. Parents in this situation can use OurPact to block their kids’ access to social media apps during school hours every Monday through Friday.

Parents also can set screen time limits for each day of the week. For instance, say you want kids to spend less time on their devices during the weekdays, but you’re willing to give them more freedom on the weekends. Use OurPact to set a screen time limit of one hour Monday through Friday, and two to three hours on Saturdays and Sundays.

Freedom

If you block a social media app such as Facebook on your child’s phone, it’s possible that he will hop on a desktop, tablet, or laptop device to gain access to the site. How can you stop this? Using the Freedom app. Freedom is one of the few apps that works across multiple devices. It’s currently compatible with Mac OS X 10.8-10.12, Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 10, and iOS 9+. Basically, it helps you manage your child’s access to certain websites and apps across their desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

Parents can pick and choose which apps and websites they want to block, or they can block everything at once so kids are encouraged to focus on homework or spend time with their families.

Using these apps, parents can prevent their kids from wasting over five years of their lives with their eyes glued to the pages of Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and SnapChat!

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